->''"For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who--''['''63 pages''' of pure speech]''-- will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."''-->-- '''John Galt''', ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''

Happens when a character has started talking and just... won't... stop. Discussing and ranting for far longer than any normal person who's not a college sophomore would, they launch into well thought-out and outlined philosophical essays, complete with introductions and supporting points. Something any normal person might take ''weeks'' to write, rewrite, and organize before presenting, this character seemingly makes it up off the top of his head.

Not only is the length of the speech [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic generally unrealistic]] (provided that the scene is [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath not in court or during a speech, when it is usually acceptable]], or in a situation where [[HoldingTheFloor a character's only viable option is to stand up and just keep talking]]), the audience is amazingly quiet: never interrupting or leaving, and even remembering specific points during ''their'' speech. Bonus points if [[TalkingIsAFreeAction no real time has seemed to pass]] (for example, it is still before breakfast when the discussion has ended, when it easily took over an hour to read). In literature, this is indicative that the work was probably written in the Victorian era.

When the character is explaining the author's views, it's also an AuthorFilibuster. Compare SpeechCentricWork for works which feature a great amount of dialogue or monologue, and which may feature not just one but ''several'' of these. See also RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic. God help you if this overlaps with MotorMouth. When a character is filibustering for an in-universe reason, they are HoldingTheFloor. Usually becomes a WallOfText if used in a comic. Can be a FridgeLogic result of a story having an orally-based FramingDevice - 'Wait, is he still telling this tale to the guys round the campfire? [[BreakingTheFourthWall How did he pronounce the chapter breaks?]]'[[note]]One way would be that this would be a break for the storyteller/listeners to go to the bathroom, sleep, eat, etc., or that that was simply the amount of story told each evening--so the first campfire we see and the last are 30 chapters/days apart.[[/note]]

Often considered [[BadWritingIndex Bad Writing]], but [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Necessarily Bad]], and the opinion any specific reader has of any CharacterFilibuster is usually ([[DontShootTheMessage but not always]]) a product of [[ConfirmationBias whether or not the reader agrees with the point being made]], or if the point being made is petty enough to be funny.----!!Examples include:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]* Arguably, Vegeta from DragonBallZ. While he isn't the voice box of Akira's personal beliefs, he is known to wax on and on about his Saiyan heritage and his grudge against Goku. The obvious example would be during his second fight with Goku as Majin Vegeta. ''Twice'' in that same fight he goes on a long-winded speech about why Goku has humiliated him, shamed him, etc. He even gets one more speech in during the final battle with Kid Buu as he explains to himself (and the audience) why he now can finally admit that Goku is better than he.* Itsuki Koizumi from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. He constantly, ''constantly'' explains complex philosophical/metaphysical (or sometimes physics or math) theories without any reason. Usually, this is made rather creepy, not only because of his [[DissonantSerenity smile]], but also because the stuff he talks makes you feel uneasy. But all in all this is actually awesome because the person he typically tells it to, Kyon, doesn't give a crap. And if Koizumi really ''does'' make Kyon feel uneasy about it, he will just say "Just kidding, that's not what I really think, at all." Even in their home-made movie he lapses into this, taking up almost a minute of screentime.** Kyon himself also slips into this at times, though usually as the {{Narrator}} rather than in his actual actions.*** Inverted by Kyon himself in one of the later novels where he wishes he could instantly come up with a massive speech to make Mikuru feel better about how useless she is, but he cannot think of a thing to say that will not spoil the future. She thanks him for the effort, though, and cheers up.** Itsuki's long speeches usually add some context to a particular arc or story subplot. However: if you get a badly translated copy (Japan to english) of the light novels, you are, to put it delicately, completely screwed.*** Lampshaded when Kyon slips into the theater to watch Itsuki's performance during the culture fair. Itsuki's droning monologue, punctuated with the [[CharacterTic usual hand gestures]], keeps Kyon's puzzled attention for a few minutes before he nods off.* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Sergeant Keroro gives one of these about how kids can't deal with the cold in one of the manga chapters. Before he begins Fuyuki groans that they're about to lose fans as the manga has only just been turned into an anime (at the time the chapter was written). When he's done (2 pages later) he finds Fuyuki and Natsumi have stopped listening to him and snuggled back under their ''kotatsu''.* Happens at least OnceAnEpisode in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', with Itoshiki's ramblings about the episode's theme. Usually punctuated at some point with his CatchPhrase about how whatever he was rambling about "has left [him] in despair".* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': November 11's first appearance is marked by a rather lengthy address on the dangers of second-hand smoke. It gets an IronicEcho later on.* Professor Itsuki of ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'' sometimes goes off on [[WallOfText lengthy]] and philosophical speeches about science and fermentation processes. {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact that he is a professor lecturing to his seminar students.* [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} The Major's]] famous speech in which he details how he [[BloodKnight loves every last aspect of war]]. The version in the OVA clocks in at more than six minutes long. Tends to be tolerated (if not outright enjoyed) due to how CrazyAwesome it is.* There's a reason that the episodes of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' are twice as long as usual -- it's so they have time to cram in all the lengthy speeches basically every single character makes, either about how they feel, what they're going to do next, or even just exposition.* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': Victor Talbot often employs these when he has the chance, such as when he's PerpSweating, although his filibusters are less eloquent on-the-spot speeches than they are angry, [[SirSwearsALot profanity-laden]] rants. -->'''[[ManipulativeBastard Huey:]]''' Brash and one-sided as ever, I see.* The main character of ''Gimmick!'' launches into a long rant about the evils of propaganda after his backstory is revealed, in which [[spoiler: he's tricked into helping create a propaganda ad for the War on Terror, which convinces one of his friends to join the army and end up dead.]]* ''Manga/GugureKokkurisan'''s Kohina delivers several, mostly about cup noodles which just drives home how much of a TrademarkFavoriteFood they are to her.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* In ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', there's ''always'' Uncle Bob or Lil' Susy, to helpfully preach how you are a sinner and you are bound to Hell, and the only way to avoid it is Jesus.* Used painfully straight by the Mexican political cartoonists ''Creator/{{Rius}}'' and ''El Fisgon'', using the characters [[GaryStu Gumaro]] and [[MarySue La Beba Toloache]] in their respective works, Rius actually lampshades it in one strip: On it, the [[BadCopIncompetentCop cops]] from [[CorruptBureaucrat Trastupijes]] go to Gumaro's house to ask him for help, [[TheAlcoholic Nopaltzin]] is the one who greets them and out of nowhere he starts talking about the "real" figure of Jesus, the cops puzzledly look each other and ask him why he is telling them that, Nopaltzin answers that it's because Gumaro made him memorize that, as a reprieve for getting drunk again.* In ''Comicbook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem is prone to these, but the way he delivers them is CrazyAwesome enough to make them entertaining. Some of it is him writing, or possibly dictating for what he will write up later.* A relatively short one is made by Foggy Nelson, in ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' #26, defending the practice of representing masked (or other obviously guilty) criminals as a necessary part of the American legal system. Since it is very short by the standards of this trope, and he is a lawyer it actually is a fairly realistic piece of dialog.* SteveDitko's ''MrA'', a harder edged version of ''TheQuestion'', who loved to give long self-righteous speeches about black and white morality as defined by UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}}.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]* ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'': [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Cackletta]], ESPECIALLY in Part 2.* A rather impassioned rant from Calvin about movies in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':--> "Who cares? It's disgusting that they'll put out just ''any''thing these days. It used to be a high standard, but now everything is driven by test audiences and marketing. ''Film/CitizenKane'', one of the greatest films of all time, probably couldn't get made today. [[ExecutiveMeddling The studios would want to]] [[KidHero make the main character a teenager]], [[TheChase add some car chases]] [[SexSells and cleavage]], [[StuffBlowingUp toss in a few explosions]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and maybe even]] Creator/JackieChan! …I'm not saying he's ''bad''; he just wouldn't fit into that type of film."* Wrestling/{{Lita}}'s "I Was Never A Diva!" speech from the WWE story, ''FanFic/TakingItBack'', in which she rants about the decline and fall of WWE's women's division, how they gave up on great female wrestling talent in favor of the untalented Barbie-doll Divas they've become known for. Noteworthy as Lita was never known for her promo skills when she was an active wrestler.* Berry Punch in ''FanFic/TheChase'' gives quite a long speech defending polygamy:--> '''Berry Punch:''' “A mare should have the right to assemble with like-minded mares and form a herd. Present a united front. Engage in collective bargaining. Have the right to assemble. We deserve the power of committee. We deserve to be able to divide our labour and lighten our loads. We have a right to have motherhood as a unified group effort because it takes a herd to raise a foal. We have a right to collect and assemble mares from different backgrounds together so our foals will grow up with the broadest possible knowledge base to work with. What I know is limited, what another mare knows might also be limited, but together, we can teach all of what we know to our foals and have them prosper, and then when they have foals, that collection of knowledge can be passed on to their foals, each generation starting off a little better than the one before. I have a right to be a good mother, and share my motherhood experience with my best friends, those I love, and my fellow herdmates within marriage. And nopony has the right to take that from me. Motherhood is sacred. It is the foundation of our society and the privilege of every mare to do her part, and she shouldn’t be forced to endure this task alone, bearing the heavy brunt of all this labour on her shoulders. We deserve to be empowered! [[/folder]]

[[folder:Film]]* ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' has an ''actual'' character filibuster in the senate. Never before has a political filibuster been so dramatic.* The movie ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' is full of these -- although some characters do show a few signs of semi-realistic dialogue when their speeches break down.* Parodied in ''Film/BillyMadison''. Billy is required to give one of these describing how a work of literature reflects the changes the Industrial Revolution had on the modern novel as part of the climactic general knowledge quiz. He elects to compare the Industrial Revolution to a children's story called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way", and the scene cuts to the ending of the seemingly inspirational and well-informed monologue he gives on the subject. Then Billy turns to the headmaster to find out how he did, and this is the response:-->'''Headmaster''': ''[Completely deadpan]'' Mr. Madison, what you've just said... is [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard]]. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.** It's also further parodied when his opponent is given a question that he didn't know could be asked/didn't think he would be asked.* Peter Graves's speech at the end of ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld''. Became a running joke on [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] after they riffed the movie. "He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature..."* Played for laughs in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', where Robin of Loxley has a habit of filibustering, and gently lulling the townspeople to sleep in the process with his UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill impression. Then Ahchoo wakes them up again with a UsefulNotes/MalcolmX impression.* Parodied in ''Film/ScaryMovie'' when [[spoiler: Ray]] states that "Watching TV shows doesn't create serial killers. ''Cancelling'' TV shows does!" He then states how ''Series/TheWayansBros'' was a good show that didn't get a proper final episode [[spoiler: while repeatedly stabbing Bobby with a knife.]]* Jet Li's portrayal of Wong Fei Hung in ''[[Film/OnceUponATimeInChina Once Upon a Time in China and America]]'' shows him to be a sleep-inducing public speaker. (It doesn't help that his audience are miners just coming off a long shift, but still...) At the end of the movie, he offers to make speech at a dedication and is quickly turned down.* Played for laughs in ''Film/DownWithLove''. The protagonist, a best-selling author, delivers the ''extremely'' long [[TheReveal speech]] she's been saving up for years. What really makes it is the way it's all done in one shot followed by a cut to Ewan [=McGregor=] with an absolutely priceless look on his face. ([[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309530/quotes?qt0323477 A transcript of it at the IMDb]] has '''22''' lines!)* In ''Film/TheMolePeople'', John Agar just will not shut up. Probably would have been more tolerable if they'd spread the speeches around more among the characters, instead of making ''one'' the know-it-all.* In the execrable ''Horror of the Red Planet/The Wizard of Mars'' JohnCarradine appears at the end as a literal Talking Head. Which he does For about ''fifteen minutes'' of screen time, interrupted perhaps twice by questions from the remarkably dim cast. Proving once again that MoneyDearBoy triumphs over Art.* V from ''Film/VForVendetta''. For some, though, his monologues and speeches are often the highlight of the film.--> "[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Verily, this vichyssoise]] of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OB6EsUP4tU verbiage]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal veers]] [[LampshadeHanging most verbose]]..."* The protagonist of the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film ''Guru'' has one of these at the end justifying his rapacious business practices. It wins over an initially hostile crowd, just like Howard Roarke's similar speech in ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' (both book and movie).* ''Film/GodsAndGenerals'' was filled with monologues, but one from Col. Chamberlain is especially in line with this trope. He normally tends to shoot from the hip in his speeches, but at one point a casual remark from a sergeant about "darkies" leads Chamberlain to replay with an eloquent speech about how it doesn't matter whether or not the South is correct about their rights being violated as long they hypocritically deny these same rights to their black population, and thus the North has just cause to prosecute the war.* Paddy Chayefsky was in love with this trope. Howard Beale's multiple-page rants in ''{{Network}}'' are the best example.* The ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' NonSerialMovie used both recurring LittleMissSnarker Ai and one-off WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds [[spoiler:Hiroki]] to filibuster over the hereditary nature of Japanese society. It is sometimes quite jarring to see [[spoiler:Hiroki]] filibustering at around 30-35 minutes into the movie, while for the rest of it he was an extreme {{woobie}}.* It's based on a true story, but we don't know how much is real: during the Clay Shaw trial in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', Jim Garrison talks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwoakFvvLIo for 8 minutes]] in final summation (that brought Kevin Costner [[ThrowItIn to real tears]]).** Speaking of Kevin Costner, he gives a rather epic off-the-cuff [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfdl6hNZ9k speech]] in BullDurham when asked, "well, what do you believe then?", though unlike most such examples it's very ribald.* In a RunningGag, Mr Smith of ''Film/ShootEmUp'' tends to rant about minor things that annoy him. In this case, it's excused for three reasons: One, either his rants or what he does after them tend to be funny and/or awesome; two, other characters frequently note that they neither know nor care what he's talking about; and three, it sets up his awesome verbal smackdown of the villain at the end.* In ''Film/DonJuanDemarco'', the title character (played by JohnnyDepp) has a couple speeches explaining what it takes to be the World's Greatest Lover (it's very much to Depp's acting credit that he manages to deliver these convincingly.) His analyst Dr. Mickler (MarlonBrando) does a more tongue-in-cheek one, complete with playful fake accent, about being the World's Greatest Psychiatrist.* ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' features a long rant from the eponymous character about possibly working for the NSA.-->'''Will:''' Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot, just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were all pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price -- and, of course, the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices; a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walkin' to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids; and meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it; while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.* Unsurprisingly, the film version of ''Literature/TheFountainhead'', adapted for the screen by Creator/AynRand herself, has several of these.* Do not mention politics to Winston Churchill in ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'' . He has ''a lot'' of things to say about the Labor Party, in specific.* Seth MacFarlane's character has quite a few of these in ''Film/AMillionWaysToDieInTheWest.'' The title speech is a few minutes long.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* There are long, boring and banal speeches explaining de Sade's insipid nihilism and justifications of selfishness and cruelty in almost all his works, the most famous being "Justine", "Juliette" and "Dialogue between a priest and a dying man".* The only real question any high-schooler has about the works of Creator/CharlesDickens is, "Who's most likely to shut up this hour? The character, the narrator, or the teacher?"* Perhaps the ultimate example of this comes from ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', as the page quote indicates. Though including a full quote would be impossible, because Galt's speech goes on for sixty-three pages. Nobody has ever managed to read the entire speech clearly and intelligibly in less than six hours. ** In fact, this trope is sometimes known as "A John Galt Speech."** The full speech can be found at http://galtse.cx (the URL serving as a reference to a certain well-known ShockSite). The fact that it weighs in at just over 180 kilobytes of plain text should tell you something. For those who are curious: It's ''32,962'' words long.** Ayn Rand lives by this trope. Characters in most of her books will lapse into extended monologues about their philosophies on life whether justified (as in the above example) or not (as in the middle of a conversation), to the point that pretty much all of her books are obvious [[AuthorTract author tracts]].** ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' shows remarkable restraint, at least by Ayn Rand's standards, in that you ''only'' have to listen to Howard Roark for nine pages. * General Jerima Precklesdough in ''Literature/FelsicCurrent'' speaks in nothing ''but'' filibusters. His run-on sentences tend to be so convoluted that none but the most astute and intellectual of listeners (and readers!) can keep up with him. This makes taking orders from him a particularly grueling challenge for his troops. He's also been known to lose ''himself'' within the mazes of his own verbal meanderings, to his great amusement.* This was the main point of ancient philosophical dialogues, where the setting and characters were present only to [[FramingDevice lend the appropriate framework]] (and often authoritative weight by placing the words in the mouths of well-respected and conveniently deceased classical scholars) for one (sometimes more) to outline an entire philosophical argument.* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheIliad'' cycles between speeches that go on for over a hundred lines, often ''[[TalkingIsAFreeAction in the middle of a pitched battle]]'', punctuated by someone's skull being splattered.* Plato's ''Literature/{{Symposium}}'' consists of many long speeches on the nature of love in between people getting happily drunk and [[{{Bishonen}} Alci]][[FourStarBadass biades]] explaining how [[CoolOldGuy Socrates]] broke his heart.* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/DonQuixote'', as the title character will frequently give long, unprompted speeches about topics such as The Golden Age of Chivalry, the debate between arms and letters, or really whatever crosses his mind at the moment, much to the annoyance of the people who have to listen to his rambling.* This happens quite frequently in ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' and the rest of ''Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales''. In fact, Hawkeye's introduction in ''Last of the Mohicans'' has him doing one of these. Then Chingachgook joins in the fun.* Anything by Creator/FyodorDostoevsky, who is (in)famous for this. That includes ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'', ''Literature/TheIdiot'', and ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov''.** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Literature/NotesFromUnderground'', where the unnamed narrator is described as talking "like a book".** [[TropesAreNotBad Not a case of bad writing though]], Dostoyevsky was able to represent many viewpoints (even if they where the opposite of his own) in a respectable and intelligent manner.* In Creator/StephenKing's fourth ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower Dark Tower]]'' novel, ''Literature/WizardAndGlass'', Roland tells the story of his becoming a gunslinger, his first love, and the beginning of his quest for the Tower, an epic tale that spans months and takes up three-fourths of the [[ProtectionFromEditors seven-hundred-page-plus novel]], in a single evening, without pausing. It's implied that, due to the wonky nature of time in Mid-World, that the universe itself obliged Roland's need to share the information.* A quarter of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was just the monster's monologue. Hell, ''99 percent'' of ''Frankenstein'' is the eponymous character's monologue! That 25 percent is ''a monologue within a monologue!''** That is nothing. Percy Bysshe Shelley decided to improves his wife's prose by inserting monologues of his own personal philosophy into the book. This results in page long essays on Mr. Shelley's complaints of NewMediaAreEvil inserted into a university professor's lecture, or his political views inserted into letters between friends. Some points Mr. Shelley only inserted a single sentence, but the writing style is so jarringly out of place it stands out like a sore thumb. This is a drinking game, take one shot every time yo come across an "improvement": by the end you will so hammered you won't remember when you grew a second hand.* Upton Sinclair's ''Literature/TheJungle'' is a pretty interesting period work right up until the socialist characters start to talk. The book practically ends with a character discussion group...* ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin''. One lazy afternoon Augustine St. Clare delivers a monologue about his upbringing, his twin brother, the differences between him and said brother, and his dislike of slavery in general (though he still owns slaves). It goes for pages and pages, but his cousin never interrupts. The annotator of the annotated edition even confesses that it makes his eyes glaze. But if your eyes don't glaze over, it can be quite beautiful even though it's improbable.* In ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', Prince Andrei gives a long CharacterFilibuster about why who's commanding what army doesn't really matter before the [[FinalBattle Battle of Borodino]]. This also applies to any time a letter by one of the characters is featured in the story.* Characters in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series by Terry Goodkind often fall prey to this, as a result of being used by the author as [[AuthorTract mouthpieces for his personal philosophy.]] Given that he, himself, was converted to objectivism by reading Ayn Rand's books, this shouldn't come off as all that surprising.** A particularly egregious example occurs in "The Pillars of Creation," where Richard Rahl lectures some poor foolish isolated communist-types on the error of their ways--for three whole chapters (60+ pages)! Such is the power of his oratory that [[EasyEvangelism he manages to convince the entire group that their people have been living incorrectly for millennia, and converts them to laissez-faire capitalism and a reductive materialist philosophy on the spot]], which results [[spoiler:in severe infighting, the phenomenon of crime and murder - which didn't exist in this culture before]] and which eventually ends in [[spoiler:their complete enslavement and annihilation, as the infighting and alien concept of "crime"]] (along with the removal of the magical barrier) has weakened and divided them so severely. Not to mention that their once-thriving spiritual tradition is all but eliminated, and they are transformed [[spoiler:from pacifists in to beserking, BloodKnight warriors.]]* Some of the later Literature/{{Discworld}} books feature at least one of these: ** ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'' features a brief rant from Malicia about how stupid and childish the Mr. Bunnsy books (Discworld's equivalent to the works of Beatrix Potter) are. But since Malicia is an unlikeable, WrongGenreSavvy know-it-all (not to mention she doesn't care that she's inadvertently dispirited a rat who regarded ''Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure'' as a Bible for rats), it comes off as a TakeThat towards ''[[StrawCritic the people]]'' who have that sort of attitude towards children's literature.** Mr Nutt, from ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', speaks in multi-paragraph lectures. There's even a bit of an explanation for why TalkingIsAFreeAction: people tend to get a bit dazed by it.** Lord Vetinari gets a few big speeches himself, like his discussion with Drumknott on the nature of freedom ("Freedom may be the natural state of mankind, but so is sitting in a tree and eating your dinner while it's still wriggling.") in ''Discworld/GoingPostal''.** Granny Weatherwax gets one in ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'', going on about how Miss Level helping people in need even when they're stupid and ungrateful is what witchcraft is all about, and not Mrs. Earwig's "wizard magic in a dress".* JeanPaulSartre did this in his novels all too often. TheReprieve has a notable example.* {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt''. The book begins with the eponymous yankee telling his story orally as a FramingDevice, but after about a chapter he gets tired and hands the listener his journal to read instead.* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' has multiple examples, including a lengthy speech from Abbe Faria about how he learned about the treasure, a long explanation of a minor character's {{Backstory}} by a Roman innkeeper, and a history of the downfall of Ali Pasha by his daughter Haydee.* Early in ''Literature/TheCulture'' novel ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', protagonist Cheradenine Zakalwe confronts an "Ethnarch" on a primitive planet who has been subjecting other ethnicities to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName forced relocation by train and mass executions]] by sneaking into that Ethnarch's bedroom at night. While holding the Ethnarch at gunpoint, Zakalwe breaks into a long explanation about why this is bad, who the Culture is, and what they do to people who indulge in such abuses, and how he should BewareTheNiceOnes. The Ethnarch attempts to [[ShutUpHannibal shut him up with a pistol hidden in his bed]], but Zakalwe had already [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets removed all the bullets]] from it. He continues to explain that the Culture will only subject him to a comfortable imprisonment rather than death. [[spoiler:This turns out to be only Zakalwe [[InvokedTrope invoking]] a long-winded HopeSpot for the Ethnarch, saying that he went freelance years ago, then [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the head]].]]* Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheGoldenOecumene'' trilogy does this. Especially in the third book, where Phaethon and Nothing (which is, in fact, an AI trapped in a black hole) engage in a lengthy philosophical discussion on the bridge of Phaethon's thousand-kilometer Adamantium starship. This is in the middle of exchanges of gunfire using the most powerful weapons of the past ten thousand years.** Nothing is trying a WeCanRuleTogether here -- it's thus incumbent upon it to explain to the hero at length why its POV is allegedly so superior. Phaethon ''could'' have restrained the impulse to answer it at such length, admitted.** Somewhat justified as the whole trilogy is riffing on the conceits of Opera: people pretending to be other people, dramatic soliloquies, etc.*** If one is familiar with Wright, as a man rather than as an artist, it makes sense. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin That's]] pretty much what happens when a classically-educated, somewhat [[LiteralGenie literal-minded]] man sets out to write "SpaceOpera".* In Literature/TheSpellmongerSeries, any time Penny gets more than two lines of dialogue, prepare for 15 pages of grade-school-level politics or economics punctuated by the protagonist basically providing an "uh, huh" or a "what then?" every second or third paragraph. Since a lot of her communications are via telepathy, you get the vague impression that Min pulls out a deck of cards and starts dealing a hand of solitaire off-screen every time she starts up.* In the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, Federation Councillor Bera chim Gleer of Tellar is infamous for these. According to one novel, ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', he's never had a speech on the council floor go shorter than forty-five minutes...and that was when he had a cold. Usually it's twice that, minimum.* Arguably Roger in ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': ''Memnoch the Devil''. Lestat does this from time to time, the worst example being ''all of Chapter 16'' in ''Blood Canticle'', wherein he stops the plot to explain why he's in love with a character despite their complete lack of chemistry.** Lestat also takes time in the preface of ''Blood Canticle'' to complain about the fans' reaction to ''Memnoch the Devil'', saying more or less that he gave them a glimpse into the mysteries of Heaven and Hell and all they wanted was "the fancy fiend" with glamorous leather and heavy motorcycles. He assures them that there's plenty of traditional badassery to go around but that he'll get to it when he's good and ready. Then again, that might be a full-on AuthorFilibuster, as well as Chapter 7 of the same novel, which has nothing to do with the plot or the series, but is a three page rave about the new Pope and some Saint in Mexico.* Mary Malone does this in the third book of ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' about her life from living as a (moderate) nun to her deconversion. However, contrary to what some may think, her rant about atheism is [[http://www.surefish.co.uk/culture/features/pullman_interview.htm actually her own opinion]], not Pullman's.* Spider Robinson's short story "God Is an Iron" ends with the main character going on an impromptu very eloquent rant about the ironic nature of the world. Lampshaded when the character listening says: "you talk good on your feet".* All of Literature/{{Psmith}}'s dialogue is in oratory, despite the fact that he regards himself as "a man of few words". It's PlayedForLaughs, as very rarely is he ranting about anything serious.* Ishmael's [[ScienceMarchesOn pseudo-]][[ArtisticLicenseBiology encyclopedic]] knowledge of whales and philosophical rants make up half of ''Literature/MobyDick.''* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Voldemort at his return and Dumbledore on several occasions. * Hugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables'' has multiple examples in addition to the digressions in Hugo's voice. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, Marius' grandfather, goes on at length about multiple topics such as the monarchy and matrimony. Marius gets a whole speech that is essentially extolling Bonaparte as a conqueror. Thenardier vents off on how society has been "unfair" to him while he is trying to get under Jean Valjean's skin during an ambush. Enjolras gets a whole chapter's worth of speech at the barricades, explaining a Utopian vision of what the revolution is about. * Creator/DavidWeber often has characters in his Literature/HonorHarrington books go into (usually wholly mental) digressions on the evils of socialism, education policies which seek to "validate" students rather than actually teach, and many other topics, depending on the plot.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live Action TV]]* Julia "Terminator" Sugarbaker on ''Series/DesigningWomen'' is this trope personified. She does this on an almost OnceAnEpisode basis, preaching her liberal views to the other characters and the audience. Ironically, she was played by Dixie Carter, a staunch Republican who got so fed up with it that she cut a deal with the producers: every time they made her rant about something she didn't agree with, she got to do a musical number.* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Londo once asks Vir if he believes in fate. He has to interrupt about a minute in to Vir's rather complex philosophy on the subject to demand a yes or no.** In the Season 1 episode "Infection", Commander Sinclair gives a long philosophical speech during a fistfight with a deadly alien.* ''Series/SeventhHeaven''. OnceAnEpisode? Try once between every commercial break.** What passed for dialogue was often alternating {{Character Filibuster}}s combined with ThatMakesMeFeelAngry, in which the characters were analyzing their own and others' emotions ad nauseum.* ''Series/TopGear''. Presenter James May is basically the CharacterFilibuster made flesh. He often goes on rants so long-winded or into such meticulous detail about physics, they've actually [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] it by fading out between scenes, coming back later to find that he is ''still talking''.* Hawkeye Pierce on ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is occasionally prone to these. ** One episode in particular, simply titled "Hawkeye", features him as the only appearing regular from the cast and is essentially a 25-minute-long CharacterFilibuster (albeit justified in-universe, since he's sustained a concussion in a jeep accident and is babbling to keep from falling asleep).* ''Series/BostonLegal'', OnceAnEpisode. It got so bad and so continuous and so integrated and so expected that nearly every case in the last series featured the judge telling the filibusterer to GetOnWithIt already.** JustifiedTrope. That's what a closing argument ''is''. In real life, if the case is big enough, closing arguments can go on for ''days''.* Jamie Hyneman of ''Series/MythBusters'', in spades... God bless 'im.** Considering Jamie's ExpansionPackPast, those speeches that delve into his various strange occupations might actually be quite interesting if they weren't [[ExecutiveMeddling cut out for time]].** Subverted when you realize that Jamie is usually edited as being more eloquent and fluid than he is, and in reality is probably the one ''most'' likely to flub or goof his lines on camera, and may require several takes to get the speech right. * DavidMitchell launches into these on most comedy panel shows [[MockTheWeek he]] [[{{QI}} appears]] [[Series/WouldILieToYou on]].** [[StephenFry "I've missed your angry logic, David!"]]* Happens more than OnceAnEpisode in ''Series/GreysAnatomy''.* Judd Hirsch's character's rant in the teaser of the first episode of ''Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip''. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Justified,]] [[RuleOfCool though.]]* Steve's legendary rants in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' on subjects such as cushions,locks on bathrooms and lesbian porn.* One Japanese variety show once had a segment in which a couple of highschool students did a movie parody of Charlie's Angels. One of the students was so impressively good at this trope that at one point the camera (an industrial, movie-business type of camera, mind!) literally stopped working before he stopped.* Subject to a lot of parody and lampshading on ''Series/{{Frasier}}''; Frasier Crane loves doing these and -- unfortunately for the people subjected to them -- will launch into one at the drop of a hat.** His biggest one has got to be the time he spent an ''entire'' episode parked at the exit of a parking garage refusing to pay the $2.00 fee because he didn't actually park after entering it, while bending the ears of the ticket guard's and the angry crowd behind him about stupid rules. Niles, who is stuck in the car with him, calls him an idiot for fifteen minutes before Frasier ''finally'' realizes that maybe he's wrong, and he should stop feeling the need to filibuster all the time, leading to this priceless exchange:---> '''Frasier:''' [[NeverMyFault You know, we wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for you and your ridiculous birdcage!]]---> '''Niles:''' *look of indignant outrage*---> '''Frasier:''' Oh come on, I can only change one character flaw at a time!** It only makes sense that Frasier managed to hook up with Diane Chambers on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', as she herself frequently made long-winded speeches, novels, and even answering machine messages.* Parodied on ''Series/GreenAcres''. Oliver would sometimes go into a long winded speech about how great America is and/or how it was great because of farmers accompanied by a fife playing either "Yankee Doodle" or "Battle Hymn of the Republic". At one point, everyone just got bored and left, even the unseen fife player.* Mr. Smoke-Too-Much, in the "Travel Agent Sketch" on ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Cirus]]'', takes this to perhaps its ultimate extreme.* Series/{{Sherlock}}'s long and extremely detailed account of how he figured out that John Watson served in Afghanistan and used his alcoholic sibling's mobile phone might qualify as this, though it's not as preachy or philosophical as some of the other examples on this page and he has to be prodded into giving any explanation longer than "it's obvious to me because I'm so smart". ** Other ways this example deviates from more sloppy uses of this trope are that Sherlock is a MotorMouth of the highest order when he's in this mode (so it didn't actually go on for too long in real time), his speech was all completely relevant to the question (he didn't drift or ramble at all), John had actually ''asked'' for an explanation (so it wasn't like Sherlock launched into an overly detailed spiel uninvited), the language was detailed but not poetic or imaginative (so there was no implausible eloquence), they were both in a taxi at the time with nothing better to do (explaining why John didn't get up and leave), and his speech genuinely was interesting to John (and probably the audience, who are most likely watching a Franchise/SherlockHolmes series precisely ''because'' they want to see a spectacular SherlockScan in action).* The entire run of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is one long character filibuster of a 51-year-old Ted Mosby insisting upon telling his son and daughter the whole story of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin how he met their mother]]. Which means not just telling them how they were introduced and how they fell in love, but ''all'' the backstory for his character development up to that point: why did they fall in love? To answer that, Ted paints a picture of his personality and life, and in order to do that, Ted takes it upon himself to not describe, but ''demonstrate'', through ShowDontTell, ''all'' the events important to said development, ''all'' the backstory explaining said events, ''all'' the unrelated events that are essential to understanding that backstory, ''all'' the character traits of his friends that explain those unrelated events, and ''all'' the even more unrelated events that illustrate the character traits that explain the unrelated events that explain the backstory that explains the important events that constitute the character development that led Ted to her. All of which is played out in explicit, detailed, semi-chronological, tangent-filled story-form. Luckily, the comedy, the sitcom format and the mysteries makes it interesting and entertaining to ''us'', but the poor kids...* Sheldon in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is prone to this if anyone mentions something he has even the most remote knowledge in; more so if he ''does'' know. And when he tried to [[FateWorseThanDeath teach Penny physics...]]* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': At least OncePerEpisode.* A number of interviewees have tried to use ''Series/TheDailyShow'' as a simple podium for their ideas, talking down to or completely ignoring their comedian host. [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-20-2009/betsy-mccaughey-pt--1 It never goes well.]]* In an episode of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', a character played by guest star Patton Oswalt engages in a political fillibuster that consists of him offering his thoughts for the plot of future ''Franchise/StarWars'' films- which basically consists of a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover with the MarvelCinematicUniverse. While the speech was significantly shortened for the actual episode, a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY full length version]] (that goes on for almost 9 minutes) was released on the internet prior to the episode, and went on to become somewhat memetic.* ''Series/{{Community}}'' - Britta proudly announces to the study group that she has a lesbian friend [[spoiler:actually a straight girl who thinks Britta is ''her'' lesbian friend]]. Everyone expects Pierce to make a comment - he tells them he has a prepared statement, pulls out a thick pile of notebook paper, full of writing on both sides, and starts in just as the opening titles roll.-->'''Pierce''': [after titles]...and in summation, good luck, and ''Bon apetit.''-->'''Jeff''': Many, many paragraphs of that were oddly supportive!* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Joey talks about the wonders of thongs in the ColdOpen of "The one with the Thanksgiving flashbacks". He's still talking about it by the end of the opening credits.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professional wrestling]]* Manager of Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, Wrestling/{{Vader}} and others, Wrestling/JimCornette, was known for this. Observe this interview he highjacks in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rzV2wOwuc Jim Crockett Promotions]].* Despite being called "Total Nonstop Action", Wrestling/{{TNA}} has frequently been criticized for diatribes overtaking any other kind of action. As ''Wrestling News World'' reporter Kendra Bunyan put it "How About A Little Wrestling With Your Talk Show?"* [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] delivered not only a long but a [[MotorMouth very high speed]] filibuster to Wrestling/CMPunk during their fourth IWA Mid-South match that caused CM Punk to leave the ring in frustration.* Fans of the North West Wrestling Alliance have been known to chant "We Don't Wanna Hear You" when [[{{Heel}} some wrestlers or managers]] get a little too long winded.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Radio drama]]* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho story ''Caerdroia'', there's a particularly odd example: the Doctor gets a LiteralSplitPersonality and, [[LiteralMinded bothered by the phrase "safe as houses"]], his CloudCuckoolander side explains that it probably comes from a 19th-century economic depression, in which only real estate didn't lose its value. In other words, houses were a safe investment. Now you know. It comes across as particularly silly because he's speaking in a slow, EruditeStoner-type voice (without all the EruditeStoner ''uh''s, ''like''s, and ''man''s), is freshly separated from two-thirds of himself, and just popped out of a weird time-space portal thing. But he's apparently too SidetrackedByTheAnalogy to notice he's literally beside himself.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]* Parodied in the play ''Sheik, Rattle and Roll'' where the Prince keeps launching into 'inspirational' speeches at the drop of a hat, which generally either bewilder his audience or send them to sleep.* Used in Charles Mee's [[http://charlesmee.org/html/wintertime.html Wintertime]] repeatedly, each time with a different character. What makes it even worse is that he fancies himself a poet, and all these speeches are in [poorly written] verse....* ''The Adding Machine'' by Elmer Rice has two scenes in which one character does practically all the talking: the opening scene, in which Mrs. Zero talks on and on to her husband; and the court scene, in which Mr. Zero's rambling defense of his crime and his miserable way of life is interrupted only once, by twelve voices shouting "GUILTY!" in unison.* Creator/WilliamShakespeare does this a lot, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples as expected]], usually justified, but occasionally to show a character is a pompous windbag, or to expound upon subjects close to him, like theater. For example, see ''{{Hamlet}}'', where the eponymous character launches into a lengthy rant about various forms of crappy acting, including MilkingTheGiantCow, after waylaying a group of players arriving to perform at the royal court.* Lucky's SuddenlyVoiced monologue in ''WaitingForGodot''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]* The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series has a lot of these, usually by the villains. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' has ''three'' in ''one'' CutScene (admittedly, it was broken up by a boss fight, at least), one of which was an AuthorFilibuster also.** Quietly self-parodied by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid: Portable Ops'', where the lead villain's [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway crazy MGS superpower]] is his ability to talk endlessly.* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. Raine's lectures are treated as a FateWorseThanDeath, and in one dungeon you ''don't'' have to listen to her. Her lecture will loop in the background until you find two guys trying to blow up the ruins they're visiting.* In ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', Sam frequently uses this, turning it into a running gag.* It may be important exposition, but it's confusing and it ''never ever stops'', so the rallying cry of many ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate/stay night]]'' players on the third day has become '''"SHUT UP, KOTOMINE."'''** This continues throughout the game as necessary. In particular, at the end, Kotomine talks [[WhatIsEvil about the nature of good and evil]], but at that point the "Shut up, Kotomine" changes in nature a little.** It gets lampshaded in an early Tiger Dojo (one of the ones for making a TooDumbToLive choice) where Ilya claims to have been using the ctrl key to fast-forward through all the exposition, and Taiga says that it may be boring, but you do need to listen to it, sadly.** Further lampshaded in ''Heaven's Feel'', the route in which Kotomine has the most active presence. Both Rin and Shirou complain about his long-winded speeches at different parts of the story.* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' features a number of these from Andrew Ryan. They're intentionally meant to be provocative. Since you're hearing them over a radio or via audio tapes, you are free to do other things while they're going on, which helps make them palatable.** Given [[Creator/AynRand whom]] the game is paying homage/parody too, that's not too surprising.* Poor Medoute gets saddled with delivering a lot of these in ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'', since as the CoolBigSis of the team, the writers seem to have decided that she should always explain and summarize the Aesop of the day. This gets obnoxious after the route divide, where her heritage is dealt with using a nearly-identical speech ''every time''.* Parodied in episode 4 of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople''. Marzipan convinces Strong Bad to let her have an eight-minute spiel on [[GreenAesop saving the rain forest]] in ''Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective'', but Strong Bad fast-forwards through most of it.* VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}: Grumpos has this as an ability called 'yammer'. He will just keep on talking and talking ''and talking'' until an NPC finally gives in. It's done as a minigame where you have to keep inflating one or the other of his lungs to let him keep going.* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': There's that one Krogan during Mordin's loyalty mission who decides it'd be a good idea to [[EvilGloating proclaim his own and his clan's superiority]] instead of killing Shepard on sight. This encounter might also "coincidentally" be that one time where Paragon players [[KilledMidSentence activated a Renegade action prompt]].-->'''Shepard''': You talk too much* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', a ''fervent'' priest of Talos will stand before the statue of his god outside Dragonsreach and Jorvaskrr and shout a constant, unending sermon extolling the virtues of Talos and maligning the [[ScrewYouElves Thalmor]] who tried to ban his worship. Since you're likely going to be constantly running back and forth between Dragonsreach, Jorvaskrr, and your house in the city, you'll be hearing him a ''lot''.* After freeing the Shinto gods in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', Amaterasu proceeds to go on a fairly lengthy rant about how the vain, grasping "Hebrew gods" (literally Hebrew gods, straight from the Japanese script, not an invention of Aeon Genesis) tricked some of the kami into locking others up and then turned on the conspiring kami themselves. To anyone outside of Japan, it comes across really uncomfortably.* Anarky in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' after being beaten goes on a rant for four minutes straight about why Gotham has become the way it is, why Batman is a part of the problem, how he can help Batman, and why he doesn't want to help Batman, contradicting his own opinions with each new topic. If only the gameplay allowed you to punch him...[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' has these often,usually in thought bubbles.* In ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'', characters often go on multi-page rants, usually [[FreudianExcuse combining their own backstory with a rationale for their personal worldview and why they're about to do/already did something horrible to someone]].* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0329.html identifies this]] as the defining characteristic of TheBigBad.* Used and parodied in [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090830 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip.* ''Webcomic/GeneCatlow'' uses this with distressing frequency, often doubling as an InfoDump.* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Zippobic the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]] finally [[LampshadeHanging calls]] Voluptua out for her tendency to do this [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100515.html here.]] He's a BeleagueredBureaucrat who works for her, as well as a giant fire-breathing dragon, and he is [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry ''dangerously'']] sick of listening to her pontificate.* Psycho Mantis' rants in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' against the completely ridiculous ideas about Mendelian genetics that were used in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series that the comic is based on. HilariousInHindsight, since "Liquid had no idea what he was going on about" is the exact explanation Hideo Kojima [[HandWave later used to excuse the bad science]].* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0282.html This]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip features a pair of these going head to head. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that both speakers are trained lawyers, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[BetterThanABareBulb in standard OOTS fashion]].* About half of all ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' strips are this.* Cerana Foral from ''Webcomic/ACompleteWasteOfTime'' is this, but with ''text'' instead of speech!* Dae of DomainTnemrot can [[http://www.tnemrot.com/?p=59 do inner monologues and has a hatred for the rich]] after living a life of extreme poverty. It's only a matter of time.* Parodied with Kankri Vantas from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', whose speeches (in one of the ''only instances'' in the comic) are generally unimportant to the plot, instead being long analyzations on social issues in Beforus troll society, which is actually quite nice compared to Alternia, making Kankri's concerns seem trivial. At one point, his text actually gets smaller and unreadable.** There is a thread on MSPA Forums applying quirks of one person to another person's speech. Naturally, someone wrote out John Galt's speech in Kankri's quirk.* ''{{Webcomic/Lightbringer}}'''s archnemesis Darkbringer has a tendency to do this. In his first appearance he [[WallOfText took up an entire page]] talking about his moral philosophy.* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-20 Nanase]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-21 Susan]] sometimes launch into this.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]* While technically it's WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's job to rant about whatever annoys him, sometimes he'll go on long, vitriolic rants like on how awful it is when parents put pressure on their kids or how dreams don't always come true. As his childhood sucked hard, it's pretty clear that they've hit a nerve in him.** In one of Doug Walker's special videos, he is followed all around a convention by Kyle Hebert, who is constantly doing his Dragon Ball Z narration.* Ryori Holloway in ''TheGunganCouncil''. Some Jedi been bad? Here's this humongous monologue for ya...[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* The whole ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Chairman of the Bored" is a perfect illustration of this trope, with the Warners having to put up with a dullard who keeps following them around in order to tell them a rambling anecdote.* WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn. ''All the time.'' On at least one occasion, he's forcibly delayed the IrisOut just to get the last word in.* Brian from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (before he just full-on became [[WriterOnBoard the writers' mouthpiece]]).** Quagmire also had one of these in an episode regarding [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech why he hates Brian]].* When ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' is made hall monitor, he gives an acceptance speech so long (he even quotes a long speech from another hall monitor) that class is over by the time he's finished.** Furthermore, he acknowledged that he overdid the speech ''again,'' implying this happened before, which was hinted by Ms. Puff's hesitance on giving it to him. * The eponymous detective on ''{{Duckman}}'' was known to do this on occasion, the most memorable probably being his lengthy rant about the insanity of modern life in the episode "A Room with a Belleview".* Pathological liar Staci from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]'' will constantly talk about her ancestors and their supposed contributions to society* TheBoondocks has one delivered by Martin Luther King Jr., after he's revealed to have survived his assassination and was just in a coma the whole time. When he tries to give a speech later in the episode, he's horrified at his stereotypical black trailer trash/ghetto audience and how much of an embarrassment they're being, before launching into a long [[NWordPrivileges n-word]]-laden TakeThat rant against them, eventually wandering off into other topics like BET and SoulPlane.** It probably doubles as an AuthorFilibuster as well, seeing as BET and SoulPlane are frequent targets on the show.* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Crippled Summer", we see Cartman using an intervention for Towelie to give an incredibly long hate speech about Jews. By the time he's finished, the papers he read the speech from are stacked to nearly his height.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]* Dictators. Think Fidel Castro.** Extending on that - virtually any politician, really. Although Fiddy probably does hold a record or two, what with that certain seven-hour speech.** Che Guevara's own account of meeting Fidel Castro for the first time involves Che's then-girlfriend asking him an off-the-cuff question and Fidel's answer taking ''four hours''.* Hugo Chavez was known for making seven hour speeches fairly often. Chavez not only had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alo_Presidente his own talk show]], but he also [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/09/suddenly-chavez-surprise-radio-show randomly interrupted other radio programs to broadcast his views.]]* There's also UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi's speech at the United Nations. It went on for over 90 minutes and ''his translator collapsed'' from the strain of translating the ramblings.* While he was running for Parliament, French-born English writer Creator/HilaireBelloc was giving a speech, when a heckler called out, "Who won Waterloo?" Belloc, a military historian among other things, proceeded to give him a rundown of the precise role played by each of the commanders on the winning side. Fair to bet ''that'' particular heckler ended up wishing he hadn't opened his mouth.* Filibustering is a well known parliamentary method used as far back as Ancient Rome. In an attempt to delay the passing of a piece of legislature a representative gives a speech that goes on... and on... and on...** Sometimes they aren't even real speeches. Frequently they're nothing more than a senator reading ''every single entry of a phone book''.** RealityIsUnrealistic in this case in the USA at least. Rules are in place that with a sufficiently large minority, a party can just invoke the filibuster without ever having to actually stand up there and talk. Many people feel this completely defeats the point of the whole thing by writing a loophole into the rules to make it easier to simply obstruct passage or prevent any debate. Others believe it prevents a tyranny of the majority, preventing a small majority from enacting legislation nearly half the country (or their elected representatives at least) disagree with. Which side you're on usually depends on whether your party is currently the majority or the minority*** A CharacterFilibuster can take place in the Senate, however, when the Senator currently speaking simply does not stop, and no rule can make them, which is useful when those opposing a piece of legislation cannot muster the votes for the above method. Senator Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest such filibuster at 24 hours and 18 minutes.** Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke on the Senate floor for just shy of 13 hours; he was asking for clarification on exactly how far the government's authority extends concerning use of drone attacks against American citizens. *** When the senate in Texas tried to push through a bill to shut down abortion centres, Wendy Davis spoke for 13 hours. The rules of Texas are much more strict than those of the US Congress - she had to stay on topic, remain standing throughout - not even allowed to lean on anything - and was not permitted bathroom or meal breaks.* A formation of enlisted men is a captive audience some NCO's and officers just can't resist. There's probably also some "Let's see how long they can stand there" sadism behind it, but the content usually amounts to "See, I'm not such a bad guy!" or "I'm your worst hardass nightmare!"[[/folder]]----"[[SelfDemonstratingArticle And that's all there is to it.]]" ...[[TheStinger said Bob]].----